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War never ends. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history or power, civil wars, political wars, and the Cold War when the West remained on a war-footing while supposedly at peace. This anthology presents poems from a hundred years of war by poets writing as combatants on opposite sides, or as victims or anguished witnesses. It chronicles times of war and conflict from the trenches of the Somme through the Spanish Civil War to the horrors of the Second World War, Hiroshima and the Holocaust; and in Korea, the Middle East, Vietnam, Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan and other so-called'theatres of war'. There are poems from years when the world was threatened by all-out nuclear war and more recent poems written in response to international terrorism. Where possible, the poems from each war or conflict are presented chronologically in terms of when they were written or set, building up a picture of what individual poets from different nations were experiencing

Author

Neil Astley

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780371368

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.8 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14